@captaincranky

I am not sure how you took my quotes and what you meant by many of your replies, which may well constitute a dumb question on my part. My writings were intended for you to comment on, but were not directed against you. In particular, the horse metaphor referred to members turning against their advisors and you are one of the latter, not the former.

In return for the entertainment you provide us, I’ll give you several, free on the house:

There are no stupid questions but there are a lot of inquisitive *****s. (unknown)
A wise man's question contains half the answer. (Solomon Ibn Gabriel)
The greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. (Charles Caleb Colton)
When someone asks you, "A penny for your thoughts," and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?
If something is obvious, but you still ask why, you won’t understand the answer either. (bobcat)

The Horse Was Here, but Now He's Gone, He Left This P**P to Carry On

No, I took no meaning aimed at me from your observations, of that you can be certain. The "poop in the stocking" motif was self deprecating humor, provided for (hopefully) everyones entertainment. The train of thought behind that was an extension of the, "no longer get offered the horse" line of reasoning you presented. I fantasized that if an individual complained enough about a gift horse, that this might result in only that horse's s*** being offered in the future. A simple morality fable about cause and effect relationships, hinged on the Christmas Stocking metaphor, nothing more. As to "thank you sir, may I have another", I was laughing so hard at your post :haha:, I was parodying it as a recruit asking his drill instructor for more punishment. I meant what exactly what I said about thanks for starting my week off with a roaring good laugh!

This sounds like it might be either George Carlin or even more so Rita Rudner, it's certainly in her style
One of her gems for comparison's sake; "If you add flour and water together you get wallpaper paste, but then when you add sugar, you get cake, where does the glue go"?

Now, this is becoming a highly entertaining thread. It may be getting ever so slightly off topic, but the latter has more or less been settled by SNGX1275’s statement. Besides, it’s a Meeting Spot here.

Thanks for the glue riddle. I tried to figure it out but…got stuck.

However, it did remind me of some further riddles.

First of all, being a cat, I have the following queries:

• Why isn't there mouse-flavoured cat food?
• If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it? (Steven Wright)

Linguistics, our alternative topic here, is also a rich source of head-scratching paradoxes:

• Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? (George Carlin)
• Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do practice?
• Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

Finally, there’s this one on computers:

• If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation...?

However, I’m too lazy to work out the answer, while sitting in front of my workstation.